OK, few months back, I made a few threads about what to do with our rec. league all-star team. We decided to continue on playing as a travel team. Since half our girls, from summer, were older and had to move up to 12u next year we decided to play the team at the 12u age level(thanks for all the advice you guys gave). We had 2 of our younger girl drop out and we picked up 2 more older girls. One of them being 12 and our starting pitcher. All of our girls came out of our rec program this summer, only the 12 year old pitcher wasn't on our allstar team(she was on the older team). Only 2 of our girls have travel experience, and they are both younger girls(I think my dd is the baby on our team, which she always seems to be),
We have practiced twice a week for 3 mos, and our girls have come a loooooong way! We plan to play only one tourney this fall(which happens to be this weekend). I am acting as team manager while another dad is h.c. We also have an excellent mother working as our sec/fundraiser! I am also acting as a pitching coach.
After our tourney this weekend we are gonna take a break until mid Jan. Then we plan to practice indoors until spring and play 3 tourneys and several dbl headers over the spring.
We are all, especially me, super excited about our debut this weekend.
My dd won't be pitching for this team, Although,I would like to get her atleast one inning in the circle. She will be our starting catcher. We have another girl that can catch, I plan to start her the second game and if it becomes a blowout let my dd pitch the last inning.
Like I said, I am super excited this for this weekend. It will be a weekend of a lot of first for a lot of people. I'm more nervous for my self than anyone else. This is the first time I've done anything like this and am more worried about having all my ducks in a row as opposed to how the girls play.
I've spent a lot of time talking with parents over the last couple weeks about what they would consider a success. For me, simply being competetive in our games would be a success(this is gonna be a big jump for most of this girls), but if we can win a game(and I think we can).............awww man, that would be out of this world.
Anyway, just wanted to let everyone know where we are with our team. I'm glad we decided to play 12u. My dd has been practicing with the 12" ball since summer and it has made a difference. Especially, with her pitching. She spins the bigger ball better and throws it harder(even at 40'). It has definately improved her pitching with 11" at 35'.
We have practiced twice a week for 3 mos, and our girls have come a loooooong way! We plan to play only one tourney this fall(which happens to be this weekend). I am acting as team manager while another dad is h.c. We also have an excellent mother working as our sec/fundraiser! I am also acting as a pitching coach.
After our tourney this weekend we are gonna take a break until mid Jan. Then we plan to practice indoors until spring and play 3 tourneys and several dbl headers over the spring.
We are all, especially me, super excited about our debut this weekend.
My dd won't be pitching for this team, Although,I would like to get her atleast one inning in the circle. She will be our starting catcher. We have another girl that can catch, I plan to start her the second game and if it becomes a blowout let my dd pitch the last inning.
Like I said, I am super excited this for this weekend. It will be a weekend of a lot of first for a lot of people. I'm more nervous for my self than anyone else. This is the first time I've done anything like this and am more worried about having all my ducks in a row as opposed to how the girls play.
I've spent a lot of time talking with parents over the last couple weeks about what they would consider a success. For me, simply being competetive in our games would be a success(this is gonna be a big jump for most of this girls), but if we can win a game(and I think we can).............awww man, that would be out of this world.
Anyway, just wanted to let everyone know where we are with our team. I'm glad we decided to play 12u. My dd has been practicing with the 12" ball since summer and it has made a difference. Especially, with her pitching. She spins the bigger ball better and throws it harder(even at 40'). It has definately improved her pitching with 11" at 35'.
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